An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego downtown features Carmen Argote's thoughtful, disruptive use of materials, chemistry and a walking-based process.
The largest sculpture in the exhibition gives the exhibition its name:"Filtration System for a Process Based Practice," which is a mound shape covered in painted linen. It's modeled after a concrete filtration structure in a man-made lake in LA's Lincoln Park, where Argote often walks.
"And what was interesting to me was that these stains looked like a cosmic language. So then it was the action of almost like deciphering. What is it saying?," Argote said.Five hanging textile pocket works — all made in 2019 — spotlight the impact and interactions of the materials chosen. Long swaths of fabric hang on the wall, with various sizes and shapes of pockets sewn onto the front.
Another large work,"Urine Map in Book Form," is a 30 foot long paper piece placed directly on the gallery floor. Using tannic acid dye, iron powder, crayon and her own urine, Argote repeated the word"MOTHER" — rubbings taken from nearby graves — along with mesmerizing bloom patterns where the liquids pooled, formed rivulets and reacted.
"It's just kind of the lessening of those boundaries and then also noticing, you know, there's a lot of people without housing, and there's no place for them to use the bathroom either," Argote said."There was just a very bodily need."
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